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VOL-II, ISSUE- II (Fall 2009)
STUDY OF ENGLISH ADVERTISEMENTS ON EARTHQUAKE OF 2005 Muhammad Ashraf Khan (Ph.D) INTRODUCTION The public service advertising is used in recent era to pull the attention of the public and to get immediate effects. The immediate effects are used to mould and to initiate the public attention, although action of the public. The advertisements about the abortion control among women and anti-smoking campaigns are seen in the west to mould the public attitude and supposed to be named as Public Service advertising. These advertisements contain the message to guide the public and also appeal them to reshape their attitude as hole. Public service advertising communicates a message on the behalf of some good cause, such as a drug free America or preventing child abuse. These advertisements are created for free by advertising professional and space or time is donated by media. IMPORTANCE OF THE SELECTED TIME PERIOD
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PRINT MEDIA SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ENGLISH PRINT MEDIA
THE NEWS Mir Khalil-ur-Rehman was the founder of Daily Jang. It started publishing in 1939 and “The News” is the English daily published under the banner of the Jang group of Publications. “The News” serves both metropolitan and elite audience.THE NATION Hameed Nizami was founder of Daily Nawai-Waqt . It started in 1940. The nation is the English daily under the banner of Nawai-waqt group of Publication.DAWN Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was the founder of Dawn in the1940 and it became daily on October 12, 1942. It was official news paper of the Muslim League which became a powerful advocate of the Muslim interest under the editor ship of Syrian (Indian) Christian journalist Mr. Dothan Joseph who was succeeded by Altaf Hussain in 1945.The dawn played an important role in the Pakistan movement. After the creation of Pakistan it appeared from Karachi under the Editor ship of Altaf Huasain.It mostly covered politically economically and social issues. It published relatively more on development issues as compared to the other elite English Pakistani news paper the reputation of dawn is recognized because of its accurate reporting and enjoys trustworthiness among its journalist panel (Lodhi, 2003, p.10) The under given alphabets will represent the following categories which are written here for the clarity of the readers. A; PUBLIC SERVICE ADVERTISMENTS These alphabets will represents the advertisers. RESEARCH QUESTIONSQ. No. 1: How much coverage is given to the issues (A1, A2, A3, etc) by the daily “Dawn”? Q. No. 2: How much coverage is given to the issues (A1, A2, A3, etc) by the daily “The News”? Q. No. 3: How much coverage is given to the issues (A1, A2, A3, etc) by the daily “The Nation”? Q. No. 4; What was the leading advertiser in provoking LITERATURE REVIEW Dominick (1994) in his book “ Mass Media Research” provides a healthy guide line for communication research constant changes in the media or the part of what makes media research interesting, and are included by the book based on the changes occurred in the industry. The researcher who is claim to search for anything should know about the fundamentals of the research, variety of research approaches, data analysis procedure research applications and mass media research effects. As the researcher analyzed the contents of the print media, he reviewed the basic concepts for the content analysis. The researcher gets the sources and the ways to select the topic from the book. Content can be analyzed by narrowing down the study qualitatively. The methodology falls on the heart of a research. The book provides an ideal and constructive to produce the research question, hypothesis, categorizing and giving the directions to the quantitative and qualitative research. A research procedure regarding content analysis is reviewed to have directions of the research. The researcher followed the procedure to collect the data and the rule s of the reliable coding. The analysis of the research has been done in the light of the statistical research. Rohma Zaman (2002) conducted a research which revolves around “The societal role of the advertising.” Advertising touches the lives of almost every person, almost every day, in some direct or in direct manner. It provides information about the products, services, ideas and influences the choice of the public. It often guides us in our purchases, adopting and actuates the thoughts of the public on the matters of personnel, social and economic import. She stated more that advertising has assumed great importance in the present era. It influences the minds of the people and helps in shaping attitudes towards the different things. In this way advertising is playing the role of the change agent during various innovations in the society. He defined the advertising as a “paid non-personal communication by an identified sponsor using the mass media to persuade or influence the audience”. Advertising is widely criticized not only for the role it plays in selling products but also for the way it influence the people and on the whole society. As selling tool advertising is criticized due to excesses, some also criticize as the advertising is Downright untruthful, and at best, it presents only positive information about products. But one thing that the advertising justifies that it is no doubt an effective tool for the change in the society and can be considered as the fastest way to peruse the people. The advertising repetition for the selling goods and products is criticized well due to its social influences and in this study this repetition should be measure because after the earth quake such a influence on the social ground were need of the hour to get motivational attitude towards the cause from the public. The public get attention due to the advertising and attitudes can be mould from it so, as for as the Public Service Advertising concerns it can get better results through this repetition and excesses. She has stated the effective role in the society as a change agent. Sand age (1973) is of the view that economic role of advertising is helping society to achieve abundance by informing and persuading members of the society with respect to product and ideas. Advertising plays an economic role of tremendous importance in the society. Advertising has an indirect but powerful impact on society through its influence on media. Many publications and broadcasting operations depend on advertising revenue for survival. This often is true of religious media as well as commercial media,. For their part, advertisers naturally seek to rich audiences; and the media, striving to deliver audiences to advertiser, must shape their content so to attract audiences of the size and demographic composition sought. This economy dependency of media and the power it confers upon advertisers carries with its serious responsibilities for both. The advertiser in this regard have to reach the audiences by getting space and time from media through its economical power on which the institutions depends including media. So, the economical role of the advertiser helps it to regulate the media. The message is designed by the advertiser to effect the audiences and in this way it could play vital role to aware the public in the time of the crisis.. Fr. Kananaugh was on the mark when describing the effects of advertising on the society in his article. He said that, the moral values are being degraded by the bombardment of impropriety by the media. Adler would be quick in pointing out the reasons why these messages have such a negative effects on people. There are two main tactics advertisers use to sell their product; either imply that their product will bring about achievement of a particular (usually real) good, or make their product the object of desire, there for making it an parent good to people. The problem with associating products with the achievements of the good lies more in the realm of truth than in good, because it lies in whether or not the product can truly live up to its claims. The relation between a product and the achievement of a good is an objective truth, through the goodness of the said product may not be. The statement that product will make the Advertiser more popular, solves the problems. Advertisers make these statements; therefore, they are directly misleading the public. Advertiser some time misleads the public through getting dependency on the falsehood. Advertiser tries to attempt the good will of their products through disseminated the wrong messages. Advertisement as is a fastest tool to effect the audiences can manage their desires in the fulfillment form. Like in the condition of crisis where there is surveillance of the media on the public information seeking, the advertiser had choice to aware the public through these tactics in a manner full way that public tried to attempt the rehabilitation activities for the effected people. Sibert’s theories were intended to be normative, meaning that “they don’t attempt to stipulate how social system operates but rather the specification of how they should or could work according to some pre-existing set of criteria. (Salman, 2006; p.28) Social responsibility theory demands obligation from the media and the advertisers re also major part of the media contents sponsor they are also obligated through the ethical bounds so, that they all work properly for the betterment of the society by giving coverage responsibly to manage social problems. In this research, the social role of the governmental and non-governmental organizations would be examine in bringing motivation among public by publishing public service advertisements. MAJOR CONCEPTS A. Public Services Advertisements. B. Marketing/Direct sales Advertisements. The category A is more de-categorized by the researcher which are following: A1. Fund Raising The advertisers will be also classified by giving them symbols.(The advertisement’s sponsor will be recognized by following symbols.) a . Government b. International companies/co-prorates
CONCEPTUALIZATION OF CATEGORIES1. PUBLIC SERVICE ADVERTISEMENTS The Advertisements in which the message is designed to help the affected people and on the non-commercial bases or the Advertisements which are disseminated for the cause will be placed in this category. 2. MARKETING/DIRECT SALES ADVERTISEMENTS The Advertisements in which the message is designed to sale the products related to the earth quake effected people/ area or to promote the business by using that cause will be placed in this category 3. FUND RAISING 4. RELIEF GOODS 5. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION 6. MORAL SUPPORT 7. INFORMATION 8. OTHERS Else than these issues if found by the researcher will be placed here.
RESEARCH DESIGN UNIVERSE OF THE STUDY SAMPLE OF THE STUDY UNIT OF ANALYSIS SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SELECTED TIME PERIOD RESULTS DAILY THE NEWS
A; PUBLIC SERVICE ADVERTISMENTS Interpretation TABLE NO 5.B COVERAGE OF PUBLIC SERVICE ADVERTISMENTS
Interpretation TABLE NO 5.C DAILY THE NATION
Interpretation
A1*; Fund raising A2*; Relief goods A3*; Public participation A4*; Moral support A5*; Information A6*; OthersInterpretation Summary
Table 5.2 The Nation October 9th 2005 to january 8th 2006.
A1*; Fund raising A2*; Relief goods A3*; Public participation Interpretation Summary Table 5.3 The News October 9th 2005 to January 8th 2006.
A1*; Fund raising A2*; Relief goods A3*; Public participation Interpretation Summary SUMMARY & DISCUSSION The overall analysis of the observed empirical finding in term of no of ads and space given to the aforesaid three major English dailies shows that “the News” published more ads and given more space to the public service ads than “Dawn” and “The Nation”, while the government took lead by the publishing more ads with more space. S it is evident from the data “The News” published 16 ads on public service ads with the space of 1518cm. (see table 5.13). The government published more ads with more space for the month of November 2005. While “The Nation” published 15 ads with the space of 1295cm on the public service ads and published 1 ad with the space of 60cm on marketing/direct sales. (see table 5.9). Media published more ads with more space for the said month in the same paper. While “Dawn” published only 11 ads with the space of 1082cm. (see table 5.5). Government published more ads with more space to raise earthquake issue. The overall empirical result for the month of November 2005 in three English dailies can be conclude that “The News” disseminated more ads with more space. REFERENCES Bari, F. (2001). The advertising effect on society. Islamabad: Pattan publisher Glattohoru. A.A. & Johgr. R.L (1998). Writing The Winning Thesis Dissertation: A Step by Step Guide (1998) California. A Sage Publication Iqbal N. Ch. (2003). A Comparative Analysis Coverage Editorials Regarding Election 2002. Unpublished Master’s thesis at University of the Punjab, Lahore. McQuail. D. & Windhal. S. (1993). Communicatin Models. London & New York: Longman. Minnestoa. S.P. & Sieberit. Four Theories of the Press. Retrieved from http//www.geocities.com/capitolhill/2152/siebert. Htm on 18-3-2008. Naqqi. H.T. Devolution: the Savior. Retrieved from http:11www.decentralization.org.pk/pk/federal.asp#F-003 on 12-03-2008 Quddus, S.A. (191). The Future of Advertising in Pakistan. Lahore: Vanguard Books Ltd. Rohman, Zaman. Advrtsing as an instrument for social changes. Retrieved from http//www.unescap.org/huset/lgstudy /comparison2.htm@_Ypv450984095 on 26-4-2008. Rizvi, H.A. (1976). The Earth Quake as a major disaster in Pakistan. Lahore: Progressive Publishers Saeed, S. (2001). A Comparative Analysis of Local Government System. Unpublished Master’s thesis at University of Punjab, Lahore. Sara, E. (2005). Free Press Function. Retrieved from htp//www.decentralization.org.pk/federal.asp#F-003 on 28-4-2008 Wimmer, R.D. & Domminck, J.R. (1994). Mass Media Research. California: Wadsworth Publishing Company Retrieved from www.psaresearch.com” HIV Aids Campaign” on 25th September 2006.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS Mr. Hassan Raza is Lecturer in the Department of Mass Communication, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan |
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